Suspicious Man Approached Walker, Chute School Students

A stranger drove up to four students walking near Crain Street and Kimball Avenue in Skokie and asked, “How was your day today,” according to District 65 Supt. Hardy Murphy.

A stranger approached three District 65 students as they were walking near Crain Street and Kimball Avenue in Skokie, according to an e-mail sent to parents by Supt. Hardy Murphy. A man in a medium blue SUV drove up to three students from Walker Elementary School and one student from Chute Middle School around 4 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, and asked the students, “How was your day today?” Murphy said in the e-mail. The driver was described as a white or Hispanic man with grey hair, and was accompanied by a passenger who was described as white with dark hair and a white baseball cap. “Thankfully, none of our students responded to the stranger and one of them immediately ran home to inform her parent,” Murphy said in the e-mail. “Walking in a …

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Jacob Smith

10:44 am on Thursday, May 23, 2013

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